Case Studies

Growing an R&D Organization in China

Challenge: A leading multinational consumer products company, with highly aggressive goals for expanding its business in China, identified an urgent need to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of their Chinese research and development organization. The challenges they faced included: meeting their objectives while doubling their technical talent in the highly competitive Chinese labor market; significantly reorganizing the division to accommodate a new business model; and relocating three facilities in different cities to a new central location in China. Learn more

Innovating for Growth in a Market Downturn

Challenge: A new chairman/CEO of a high-tech company had identified aggressive growth targets despite a major downturn in their traditional market. In order to succeed, three division presidents accustomed to operating independently were going to have to work together as a team to develop a new response to these dramatically changing conditions. Learn more

Transforming Business Culture for Agility and Growth

Challenge: The new CEO of a mid-sized services company needed his organization to become more agile and adaptive to support his aggressive growth strategy. The desired culture was one where both managers and employees assumed greater leadership for themselves and others, communicated more effectively within and across departments, and were more collaborative and innovative. Learn more

Increasing Speed to Market

Challenge: Senior executives of a large manufacturing company needed their organization to increase both the effectiveness and efficiency of their discovery and development operations. Learn more

Achieving Global Consensus

Challenge: A diverse global team of research experts from a range of corporations and academic institutions needed to achieve consensus on consumer product safety standards for their industry. The team was gridlocked on fundamental issues that interfered with their productivity. Learn more

Accelerating Post-Merger Integration

Challenge:A large manufacturing company merging three separate divisions into one organization, needed assistance integrating their diverse structures. The executive team wanted to achieve greater operational consistency to improve organizational performance as they continued to grow. Learn more

Transitioning Business Models for Record Company Growth

Challenge: The CEO of a high growth services company needed to increase his strategic focus as he was transitioning business models, relocating operations to a state-of-the-art facility, doubling staff, and introducing new services. Learn more

Building Powerful Strategic Relationships

Challenge:A major consumer products company was experiencing inconsistent success among different strategic partners engaged in new research and development. Learn more